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You can't rush a breakdown. You know, it's just, you're going to have to wait it out.
And I think a lot of it is getting comfortable with your own suffering.
You can really feel that in someone. And I think a lot of social workers come
to this profession because they're familiar with that. You know, they
understand suffering and that's a big part of the skill. You know, it's like,
have you really touched it in yourself enough that that someone else's
suffering or madness isn't going to terrify you? And it can be hard.
It can be very hard to be in a small room with someone who's really lost touch
with reality or is just suffering that that badly. Just standing there and
remembering to breathe, because we need that. We're still little children.
especially in those moments of crisis. You know, we we desperately need someone
else to help us regulate and someone who can find that--just drop into their body
and give us that moment. It's powerful. We tune into it more than we do
to words, and diagnosis, and, you know, we are animal creatures who --
We respond to that energy.
The people that could do that made all the difference.